Mil Mi-28 Havoc or Kamov KA-50 Hokum ?

Mi-28







KA-50 Hokum

The Hokum, looks meaner

By far the KA-50, it rules...
Check out the page that I wrote about it;
www.air-attack.com...

They're both good machines: the Hokum is certainly much more interesting technically: this contra-axial counter-rotationg set-up with no need for a tail-rotor is a pretty effective piece of engineering (one hopes) and the single-seater nature does make it rather more like a "fighter" of old.
It apparently has a very advanced ejector-seat system also.
I'm not sure any helicopter comes across as very "mean" to me -unless it's against relatively weak air-defences: it's a miracle any of them flies, given the aeronautics (torque, pitch, yaw etc.) and they always strike me as very vulnerable targets.
But -in the right scenario -very effective ground-attack machines.
I'm not sure if the Hokum has been put into the field yet (limited service perhaps).

Zion, I found Ka-50 MPEG's. May be you can take them for your website ?

MPEG_01 ( In Flight )

MPEG_02 ( Using it's missiles )

MPEG_03 ( Using a gun )

One thing to note, thought: last photo is not a Ka-50, but a Ka-52, the two seats Hokum version. I could never understood why they choose a side-by-side configuration for this one... They are both gunners?

[Edit]: I have preference for the aircraft which artistic impression I use as avatar... [edited again]It was a Boeing X-50 Dragonfly, i changed it due size constraints.

BTW, Zion Mainframe, nice page, but too personal for my tastes...

[Edited on 2002-12-20 by MakodFilu]

1) Yes, it's a KA-52, and not a KA-50. Thanks. It was really an horrible mistake and I have to be sentenced to death, specialy cuz I knew it.

2) Yep. One gunner for the left-gun, and another one gunner for the right-gun.Like this, they can fired, both of them, and nobody is jealous. These Russians are really gentlemen, isn't it ?

LOL

-Huh, comrade...
--Hummm! Yes?
-If you are firing... and I am firing... Who is piloting?
--Uh oh...
-Aghhh!!!

Heu ? Well, good question. I don't know !? The auto-pilot may be ?

I would say that Ka-50 Hokum is better.. Hell it is BEST.. least untill the EUROCOPTER TIGER enters service..

And Cobra is maybe best (better..) US Gunship..

But Still Mi-24 Hind is most feared.. has more firepower than medium size third world country..

I think the Mi-28 is pretty good. It looks mean, mean and ugly.

...NOTHING TO CONTEST ABOUT THAT.

RAH-66 is going to be pretty good.

NATO member: Turkey is buying 50 KA-50's from Russia. hehe

regards
seekerof

RAH-66 is a SCOUT HELICOPTER.. Not a full grown GUNSHIP..

Seekerof.. do you have any facts about Turkey buying those Kamovs? I thought that under US / ISRAELI pressure they abbandoned that plan and setteled for some AH-1 Ws..

i think the anti aircraft missiles is my choice and still the best,i call the stinger american quality i m proud of
just a soft joke no harm here

Dude on the left is pilot and the one on the right is gunner, there is a gun on the right side, no gun on the left side. The two seater Ka-52 was originally for training purposes, but then flying the chopper alone made it harder than with two pilots.

Uninen.....come on, you know better than that....
My mistake though...its not 50 its 145...
therussiajournal.com...

pub137.ezboard.com...
(may load slow..be patient)

regards
seekerof







[Edited on 19-8-2003 by Seekerof]

What can the other Attack helicopters do that the RAH-66 cant do? Hmmmmm

carry more weapons and look cooler